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Evernote’s $4.5 Million New Year’s Eve Round

Evernote, which is up for a Crunchie award, rang in the New Year with an extra $4.5 million of cash from Russian investment firm Troika Dialog. A mid-December report had put the investment at $5 million, but the company did not actually close its B round until December 31. He is still trying to raise another $3.5 million tranche, but believes the current funding will hold the company through 2010. CEO Phil Libin says: The rumors that circulated in the beginning of December were very prematur

Jan. 8, 2009 04:33 AM

Obama - Check Please TV - 2001

Yes - it appears he did exist before 2004!

Jan. 7, 2009 06:34 PM

CEP as a “BI Megatrend”?

Sometime one has to take what one reads on the web with a liberal pinch of salt. I was amused to read on Intelligent Enterprise in the last few days that: CEP is a “BI Megatrend” CEP is a “marketing device” CEP to be provided by IBM’s latest (rule engine) technology acquisition - presumably either alongside, or replacing, their “Appsoft” (per the article) acquisition… [*1] The first article is the most interesting: the BI megatrends also of inter

Jan. 7, 2009 06:04 PM

Friends Of Dave for FriendFeed

Just one more service, I promise. A test to see if it works...

Jan. 7, 2009 04:59 PM

Copilot OneClick for Macintosh

Fog Creek Copilot is an inexpensive, and very easy to use, remote tech support system that allows you to remote-control someone else’s computer over the Internet without installing anything special. It’s perfect for ad-hoc tech support, and used extensively by helpdesks, software companies providing telephone support, and people helping their friends and families with computer problems. At Fog Creek, we even use it to conduct coding interviews for programmers. The new Copilot OneClick featu

Jan. 7, 2009 04:05 PM

Web 2.0 in 2009: What's Out, What's In

As a CTO, my boss tells me I am entrusted with ‘understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe's technical vision and strategy’. So I am prone to trend-watching and predictions. In fact, I like predictions. And I think my 'Web 2.0 in 2008: What's Out, What's In' predictions were fairly good.I should note that I think the end of the year is a fairly arbitrary time to consider ‘what’s next, what’s hot, and what’s dead-on-arrival’. After all, the Web 2.0 world ch

Jan. 7, 2009 10:46 AM

Reform the FCC

There are lots of ideas, resources, and discussion about how to reform the FCC at the aptly named Reforming the FCC site put together by Public Knowledge and Silicon Flatirons. [Tags: fcc net_neutrality ]

Jan. 7, 2009 10:10 AM

ICOODB 2009 call for papers.

I would encorage you to consider submitting a paper and/or a tutorial to the second International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB), which will take place on July 1-3, 2009, at ETH, Zurich, in Switzerland.As you may know, ICOODB 2009 is the second in a series of international conferences aimed at promoting the exchange of information and ideas between members of the object database community. (Last year ICOODB was in Berlin).A key feature of this year conference is its goal to bring

Jan. 7, 2009 06:51 AM

A flash from the past - Seattle Speakeasy

This morning while walking the dog, I was overcome with a flash from the past - a memory I have of being in a Seattle Speakeasy circa 1998. Ah, those were the days

Jan. 7, 2009 06:41 AM

Prostitution, Slavery, Children, Women and San Francisco

I've been active in women's issues for a long time, and saw Kristof's article from a few days ago, If This Isn't Slavery, What Is? and was reminded of how bad prostitution really is, especially in Asia. I'm half Filipino, and many Americans go to the Philippines for sex tourism, and so many Filipinas are brought to this country as prostitutes. Think sex trafficking doesn't happen here? Read about Sex Slaves in San Francisco, or the story on MSNBC: Lucky, Susu, CEO Health Club -- we pass by these

Jan. 6, 2009 01:30 PM

SY + MEAP = P1

Sybase Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms Magic Quadrant

Jan. 6, 2009 11:51 AM

Avoiding SOA Disillusionment - eBizQ Panel Recap

Joe McKendrick recently led an eBizQ panel on Avoiding SOA Disillusionment. Participants included Chris Harding, The Open Group; Phil Wainwright, eBizQ and ZDNet; Jignesh Shah, SoftwareAG; David Bressler, Progress Software; and myself, Chris Kraus, Product Manager, ITKO LISA. The panel audio is available at this link to the eBizQ panel on Avoiding SOA Disillusionment. You have to register with eBizQ if you have not done so but it is quick and free. Joe put the term ???disillusionment??? in quot

Jan. 6, 2009 11:02 AM

Cfengine Launches Commercial Open Source Company

Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Bloomberg, IBM, Nokia, and many more. I suspect that many of them would pay for commercial support: Here’s the news from the newly formed Cfengine AS: Following 5 years of research and development under the technical direction of its long time aut

Jan. 6, 2009 10:55 AM

Adaptive Path’s 2009 Events - So many options!

For the first time in Adaptive Path’s history, we’ve released our entire slate of in-person events for the year at the beginning of the year. (I say “in-person” because we’re still working on our virtual seminar lineup). I know it’s going to be a strange year for many folks, budget-wise, but we’re confident we have events that can satisfy various abilities of spend. And if you use the promotional code FOPM, you’ll get an extra 15% off! I’m mo

Jan. 5, 2009 07:16 PM

Things I Learned As A Kid (Number 22 in a series)

There is a Santa Claus. There isn't a Santa Claus. The deal about Santa? The same goes for his elves, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, God, and the Halloween Ghosts and Goblins.

Jan. 5, 2009 06:44 PM

How can Adobe make learning ActionScript 3 easier?

As you may have noticed from some of my recent posts (here and here), I have been spending some time lately thinking about the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 transition. I am working on some stuff to make this transition easier (especially for non-developers), but I wanted to make a quick post and get the community’s input. How can we make the transition from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 easier? I am specifically interested in input from anyone who does not consider themselves hardco

Jan. 5, 2009 03:14 PM

Are you using Footprint project?

If yes, please register that at Ohloh.

Jan. 5, 2009 02:00 PM

I support Israel 2

A blogger and a software developer from United Kingdom posted the following:"Having just received some photos from a source I will not name, it is truly horrific to actually see what is going on there, I mean this is the sort of stuff that

Jan. 5, 2009 11:40 AM

Auroralites dog safety collar

A friend recently pointed out a cool gadget to me that deserves a brief mention on this blog. It is a dog safety collar from Auroralites that uses electroluminescent ("EL") technology to provide a long-lived and bright safety light for your night-time walkies. The product is already being used by police, search & rescue, FBI, and other security K-9 teams, and is now also available for civilian use. The collar is shock proof, water resistant and soft, so they won't break teeth. They

Jan. 4, 2009 08:22 PM

Top Read 2008

2008 Top Read Blog Entries! The 2008 calendar year was an exceptional year for activity on my Blog site. User activity averaged over 50,000 per month in the latter part of the year and the blog site itself recorde

Jan. 4, 2009 08:12 PM

Perspective on ColdFusion's Big Question (TM)

Just wanted to share a reply I made on GetSatisfaction to provide a historical perspective to the question "What really is the future of ColdFusion?". Before you ask what the future holds, its good to look back to see where ColdFusion has been since...

Jan. 2, 2009 01:45 PM

We do not find peace;

We do not find peace; we make it.

Jan. 2, 2009 12:48 AM

Signs of the Times

I took these pictures at the Stanford Shopping Center during the week after Christmas. Money sure talks now… There were a handful of stores without sales signs, but only one didn’t offer discounts and had lots of people in it. :-) We all definitely have our work cut out for ourselves in 2009. As a wise man once said, “Some things need to be believed to be seen.”

Dec. 31, 2008 05:23 PM

Happy Christmas!

Here's this year's Christmas tree. Christmas 2008 After all the ice and snow, and the people without power for two weeks tomorrow, let's have a great holiday, and good wishes for everyone.

Dec. 25, 2008 12:51 PM

Webinar 2.0 - Spread Your Reach with Rich Applications

Thanks to all the participants for the overwhelming response to this month’s webinar on “Delivering Rich Internet and Mobile Applications cost-effectively“. Due to the success of the December event, Web Spiders is rerunning the webinar again on two dates in January. (details below) As before, Web Spiders’ Business Development Manager (UK/ Europe) Neil Burton [...]

Dec. 19, 2008 10:34 AM

Fabrizio Giudici's Blog

JavaFX, Flex (or: Stephan Janssen and friends are the men!)

You are not seeing me blogging about this Devoxx (former JavaPolis) conference - this is because I feel like I have my batteries drained.It is probably a combination of the antibiotics from the past week and the over-stress of three...

Posted: Dec. 11, 2008 12:48 PM

About Swing and SwingX

If you are interested into Swing, SwingX, JavaFX, you shouldn't miss latest Kirill's interview of Richard Bair. Let me just point out a couple of passages:How likely is it to see the SwingX components being part of core Swing in...

Posted: Dec. 5, 2008 03:32 PM

My Devoxx agenda

Devoxx is even more interesting this year, so it's difficult to choose. But here it is my provisional agenda.PS I must say that my attending of Devoxx is presently a bit at risk - I've just suffered from a intestinal...

Posted: Dec. 4, 2008 07:12 AM

Congratulations to JUG Lugano

About 40 attendees at the very first meeting is really a good start. And the discussions, both at the end of my speech and at the restaurant, were pretty pretty interesting. Technorati Tags: JUG Lugano...

Posted: Nov. 21, 2008 05:25 AM

Some reminders (JUG Lugano, NetBeans Demo Camp at Genova, Devoxx...)

Let me just write a few reminders...This evening at 18:45, JUG Lugano is going to give its first meeting. I'm speaking about Struts 2 (and NetBeans, of course). Pizzas will follow.Next Tuesday, November 25, there will be a NetBeans Demo...

Posted: Nov. 20, 2008 08:21 AM

Guys, don't panic - Swing is here to stay

The announce of Sun stopping funding of SwingX is spreading some irrational fears. I'm in the worst moment to blog about that, but I'd like to put some things clear immediately (for this reason I'm not commenting on Kirill's blog...

Posted: Nov. 6, 2008 08:20 PM

Creating an embedded screencast recorder in your desktop application

A couple of beta users of blueMarine have submitted an issue several weeks ago, about some strange behaviour of the photo thumbnails. As usual, I asked them to send the log files, a thing that they did promptly. I thing...

Posted: Oct. 24, 2008 07:48 AM

Celebrate NetBeans' 10th birthday with JUG Genova (NetBeans Demo Camp)

I think you already know that in these days we're celebrating NetBeans' 10th birthday. JUG Genova will have a special NetBeans Demo Camp on November 25, don't miss it!PS Changing topic, have you already booked for Devoxx? Remember that the...

Posted: Oct. 20, 2008 08:59 AM

Resources for NetBeans users and developers

Being in a hurry today, let me just give you a quick recommendation: in addition to following my blog ;-) , there's an excellent bunch of resources related to NetBeans (both the IDE and the Platform) on DZone: http://netbeans.dzone.com -...

Posted: Oct. 17, 2008 07:57 AM

Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible

I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...

Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 10:10 AM